for whats its worth, I have been using CephFS shared between six servers
(all kernel mounted) and no issues.  Running three monitors and 2 meta
servers (one as backup).  This has been running great.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Kingsley Tart <c...@dogwind.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 13:49 +0100, Loris Cuoghi wrote:
> > I think you're confusing CephFS kernel client and RBD kernel client.
> >
> > The Linux kernel contains both:
> >
> > * a module ceph.ko for accessing a CephFS
> > * a module rbd.ko for accessing an RBD (Rados Block Device)
> >
> > You can mount a CephFS using the kernel driver [0], or using an
> > userspace helper for FUSE [1].
> >
> > [0] http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/cephfs/kernel/
> > [1] http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/cephfs/fuse/
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I specifically didn't want a block device because I would like to mount
> the same volume on multiple machines to share the files, like you would
> with NFS. This is why I thought ceph-fuse would be what I needed.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Kingsley.
>
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